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Lincoln University, PA

Lincoln University
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Student Union
Former names
Ashmun Institute
Motto "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed."
Type State-related
HBCU
Established April 29, 1854; 163 years ago (1854-04-29)
Endowment $35.5 million
President Brenda A. Allen, PhD
Students 1,902 students (2015);
Location Chester County, Pennsylvania,
United States

39°48′30″N 75°55′40″W / 39.80833°N 75.92778°W / 39.80833; -75.92778Coordinates: 39°48′30″N 75°55′40″W / 39.80833°N 75.92778°W / 39.80833; -75.92778
Campus Rural 422 acres (1.7 km2)
Colors Orange and Blue
         
Athletics NCAA Division IICIAA, ECAC
Affiliations TMSF
Mascot Lions
Website www.lincoln.edu
Designated January 25, 1967
Presidents
John Miller Dickey 1854–1856
John Pym Carter 1856–1861
John Wynne Martin 1861–1865
Isaac Norton Rendall 1865–1906
John Ballard Rendall 1906–1924
Walter Livingston Wright* 1924–1926
William Hallock Johnson 1926–1936
Walter Livingston Wright 1936–1945
Horace Mann Bond 1945–1957
Armstead Otey Grubb* 1957–1960
Donald Charles Yelton* 1960–1961
Marvin Wachman 1961–1969
Bernard Warren Harleston* 1970-1970
Herman Russell Branson 1970–1985
Donald Leopold Mullett* 1985–1987
Niara Sudarkasa 1987–1998
James Donaldson* 1998–1999
Ivory V. Nelson 1999–2011
Robert R. Jennings 2011–2014
Valerie I. Harrison* 2014–2015
Richard Green** 2015–2017
Brenda A. Allen 2017-
* Acting president
** Interim president

Lincoln University (LU) is the United States' first degree-granting historically black university. Founded as a private university in 1854, it has been a public institution since 1972. Its main campus is located on 422 acres near the town of Oxford in southern Chester County, Pennsylvania. The university has a second location in University City, Philadelphia. Lincoln University provides undergraduate and graduate coursework to approximately 2,000 students. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.

In his book, Education for Freedom: A History of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, former LU president Dr. Horace Mann Bond noted that "This was the first institution founded anywhere in the world to provide a higher education in the arts and sciences for youth of African descent." While a majority of Lincoln University students are African Americans, the university has a long history of accepting students of other races and nationalities. Women have received degrees since 1953, and made up 60% of undergraduate enrollment in 2015.

In 1854 Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded Ashmun Institute, later named Lincoln University. They named it after Jehudi Ashmun, a religious leader and social reformer. They founded the school for the education of African Americans, who had few opportunities for higher education.

John Miller Dickey was the first president of the college. He encouraged some of his first students: James Ralston Amos (1826–1864), his brother Thomas Henry Amos (1825–1869), and Armistead Hutchinson Miller (1829/30-1865), to support the establishment of Liberia as a colony for African Americans. (This was a project of the American Colonization Society.) Each of the men became ordained ministers.


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